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Re: RE: [ECS] New upgrade experiences Don Stephens Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:37:10 -2300

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Scott:

I hope you will post this here. If not could you let me in?

Thanks:
Don
donstephens@101freeway.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Danks" <sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us>
Date: Sunday, September 10, 2000 4:22 pm
Subject: Re: RE: [ECS] New upgrade experiences

> I can attach the home.mdb.  I did some work on the events this 
> weekend, and got the system to open the "|" delimited file and 
> parse it.  I had to make changes to the phone event. It now changes 
> the number of rings to answer on, depending on the entry in the 
> database.  And I have it changing the wav file to play for that 
> caller.  My family complained about having the system play a 
> ringing wav file over the load speakers, because it still rings one 
> more time after the phone is answered.  I may have to make other 
> changes to get this to work.  I was planning on turning off all the 
> phone ringers in the house and use the "Caller rings through" 
> setting to play the ringing wav file or not. I am still working on 
> it.  I also had to change a couple of variable types in the 
> database.  Let me get the newest one from home tonight. . . . 
> 
> >>> "Joseph & Jessica Colson III" <JColson@CajunNet.com> 09/09 7:03 
> AM >>>
> I'm also interested in knowing more on the database and how
> it all works.  Any chance of getting a copy of your cfg file?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe Colson
> 
> PS Thanks to everyone who responded to my on the ocelot question,
> Looks like that next on my wish list!
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Danks [mailto:sdanks@ci.tulsa.ok.us] 
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 9:52 AM
> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com 
> Subject: Re: [ECS] New upgrade experiences
> 
> 
> Well I spent 6 hours last night upgrading to 4.4.006 from 4.4.004.  
> I found
> that if I wait too long I REALLY have a lot of updating to do.  
> Anyway I
> have a few questions (mostly to spawn discussion)  But, I have 
> questions,you have answers. . . .
> 
> I found that if I have a mistake and duplicate a group it seems to 
> "IGNORE"the second one.  Does this happen with items and events 
> too?  I am trying to
> find a way to keep from having to update the .cfg files each time I 
> want to
> use Mark's new whizbang code.  Usually I just keep the ecs.cfg and 
> dump the
> example.cfg, but there are some really good enhancements in this one.
> 
> I fought the type: download-status for several hours last night 
> trying to
> figure out why it would not find that type and this morning it 
> dawned on me
> that it was probably a "Custom Item type".  I guess the installer 
> does not
> write over the itpcst.def file?  I installed over the old program 
> to retain
> all my wav files etc.
> 
> Now for the update I am going to do this weekend.  I made an Access 
> Databasecalled "Home.mdb" and when run, it opens to a form that 
> asks for several
> bits of info about a caller.  Like callerid number, and name and 
> wav file
> name to play and if they can call afterhours etc.  I will share it 
> if you
> all are interested.  Then when you exit the file, it writes all the 
> info to
> "t.csv" (telephone.csv)  The file has info like
> "2|1002|Jan|Adams|918|1234567|4|0|0|1|1|adams.wav".  I will write a 
> routinethis weekend to parse through this file and look for the 
> callerid number.
> Then use the data to set the rings count, answer count, and what 
> file to
> play when this caller calls (adams.wav)"  This way, I can have 
> hundreds of
> people in my database, and it's easy for my wife to enter the caller
> information on the ACCESS97 form and then the next time this person 
> callsthe system will handle it correctly.  I had to use a macro and 
> events that
> trigger the macro when the database is closed, to write the data to 
> the "|"
> delimited fields.  I just hope the computer is fast enough to run 
> throughtthe database and find the match in between phone rings.    
> Would anyone be
> interested in this?  When I get it working I would be willing to 
> share the
> code.  The numbers above represent, Record 2, id number 1002, 
> firstname,lastname, area code, phone number, ring to answer on, 
> email the recording,
> ring phones at all, call afterhours, send text page after caller 
> leavesmessage, name of wav file to play to caller.   comments?
> 
> I'm also thinking of using an mp3 format to record a lot of things 
> like a
> greeting to be played at my front door when someone rings the 
> doorbell.Didnt someone use winamp?  I wa trying to figure out how 
> to use command line
> switches to play the files, but I cant find any command line switches.
> Didnt AJ use something like this? my memory clouds the older I get. 
> (37).
> planning a great weekend....
> Scott Danks
> 
> 

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